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Sunday March 02, 2025

Pedestrian crossing must live up to its reputation

Now that winter has come, with darkness and slippery streets, we must all be more alert to keep safe in traffic. The fact that it is dim or completely dark during most of the day makes a pedestrian crossing a dangerous place. Unfortunately, there have recently been several

Published: 11:55 am,Thursday 7 November 2024

BRICS membership – What’s not to like?

The annual BRICS Summit was held last week in Kazan, the capital city of Russia’s Tatarstan region. The original member countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – held their first get-together under the BRIC banner in 2009. In 2011, South Africa joined the group, and an “S”

Published: 15:03 pm,Friday 12 April 2024

Nuclear energy: It is worth hopping on a plane to Brussels

Nuclear energy is produced for good reasons. In the early days of January, the coldest winter conditions for decades raised electricity consumption in Finland to a maximum of 15 gigawatts, which is the biggest quantity for nearly a decade. There was indeed demand for electricity produced with nuclear

Published: 10:08 am,Tuesday 7 November 2023

Radical events in the Finnish gas market - security of supply ensured

It's only been four years since Finland's natural gas imports were entirely dependent on the Russian pipeline connection. At the beginning of 2020, the Balticconnector between Finland and Estonia was commissioned, and a year ago, in the conditions of energy crisis, so was the floating LNG terminal in

Published: 00:48 am,Saturday 5 August 2023

Investments, Western market replaced Russian energy - prices reflect the new reality

Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, approximately one third of the energy used in Finland was imported from Russia. That share was reduced almost to zero in a few months, and the energy war launched by Russia increased consumer prices remarkably. As the energy markets have

Published: 19:30 pm,Friday 1 September 2023

Reforming the utilisation and regulation of nuke energy

This year, more than 40 per cent of Finnish electricity is produced with nuclear energy. In the future, nuclear energy can also be produced in smaller units and used for new purposes, such as heating industry and buildings. A new outlook for the sector's activities requires a new

Published: 01:01 am,Monday 15 August 2022

Rushdie -- and the world of writers

Problem arises when outrage or disagreement translates into outright violence or the threat of violence against a writer The assault on Salman Rushdie in New York state on Friday has left us all worried about the persistent threats to freedom of writing and of speech in our times. That

Published: 10:53 am,Friday 25 February 2022

Economic fallout from the war

In the early morning of February 24 Russian military invaded Ukraine after a long buildup of forces around the country and in the two imaginary people’s republics. This violation of international law will result in widespread human suffering and economic dislocation. While Ukraine will bear the heaviest cost

Published: 00:01 am,Sunday 15 May 2022

Getting rid of Russian energy: the EU must act prudently and take logical steps

The European Council has stated that the EU will work to get rid of its dependence on Russian energy as soon as possible. Decisions on sanctions and trade diversion are topical. Long-term investments will be guided by, among other things, the EU's Fit for 55 package. In the

Published: 10:52 am,Sunday 13 March 2022

Phasing out Russian energy will be gradual and require massive investments

An action plan published by the European Commission on 8 March 2022 sets the objective of achieving independence from Russian energy by the end of the decade. We can immediately change suppliers of many fuels. However, a long-term transformation will require major investments in energy and industrial facilities

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